Als Schlachtflieger im Einsatz, Werner Zirus (Band 2)

[Ruy Horta]

Its time for my anual question.

Any news on:

Als Schlachtflieger im Einsatz
(Band 2)
By Werner Zirus

Band 1 was published in 1998 by a Rumanian publisher - Editura Modelism - and I always thought it was rather good. The end of Part 1 held great promise for Part 2, unfortunately 8 years later and we've yet to see Werner's story continued.

Is Werner Zirus still alive, are there still plans for Band 2, perhaps a restart (Kurt Braatz perhaps)?

[Nick Beale]

I'm pretty sure that Zirus died a couple of years ago.

I'd like to have seen a "Band 2" as well.

[Del Davis]

I made this same query to the publisher about 3 years ago. I received a message back from JL Roba via Eric Mombeek that they had never proceeded with volume 2 of the project. No reason was given but if Zirus has died then that would certainly have been an impediment to completing it.

[Ruy Horta]

Through PM I have learned that Werner Zirus is still alive, that's all I feel at liberty to share.

[Erik Mombeeck]

Hello to everybody,

I just spoke with Jean-Louis about your posts. I agree with you, and consider this vol. 1 as very interesting and original. I am sorry that the volume 2 was never completed. Werner Zirus is a very interesting and nice man (fortunately he is still with us). He too would like to see his book completed by this long awaited volume 2.

He wrote his memories but they are not publishable in their original form, they must be reworked. A friend of us did it for the volume 1, but he does not have time now to go further with this project.
If there is on this board a German enthusiast who would like to work on this volume 2, Jean-Louis Roba, the publisher of vol. 1, would be happy to consider it.
Feel free to contact me if you are interested, I would forward your message to Jean-Louis:
eric.mombeek@village.uunet.be

best regards

Eric

[Boandlgramer]

i am a "German" enthusiast,
but not a professionell writer, and i guess, the latter is much more important.

[O.Menu]

Originally Posted by Erik Mombeeck

Hello to everybody,

I just spoke with Jean-Louis about your posts. I agree with you, and consider this vol. 1 as very interesting and original. I am sorry that the volume 2 was never completed. Werner Zirus is a very interesting and nice man (fortunately he is still with us). He too would like to see his book completed by this long awaited volume 2.

He wrote his memories but they are not publishable in their original form, they must be reworked. A friend of us did it for the volume 1, but he does not have time now to go further with this project.
If there is on this board a German enthusiast who would like to work on this volume 2, Jean-Louis Roba, the publisher of vol. 1, would be happy to consider it.
Feel free to contact me if you are interested, I would forward your message to Jean-Louis:
eric.mombeek@village.uunet.be

best regards

Eric

Hi all!

Do any of us knows anything about Vol 2 that must cover his I./SG10 adventures?

Cheers, Olivier

[NoNo01]

Hello all,

while looking for a book in my small library i ran into my copy of "Als Schlachtflieger im Einsatz ; Teil 1".
I wonder if there are any news about a continuation of Werner Zirus´s memoirs??
I hope he is still with us!?
Any news?

Norbert

[Morten Jessen]

Hi Norbert

I visited Hr. Zirus a month ago and as far as I know he is still with us. I have visited him twice the past five months and he is still "up 'n running".

He is writing on his memoirs at the moment, but I have not inquired about any details. I will post more information after my next visit, which should be sometime later this summer or autumn.

All the best
Morten

[NoNo01]

Hallo Morten,

good news after all.
So we can hope Hr.Zirus will surprise us with his story sometime in the future.
Maybe You adress him that there are a couple of guys realy interested in the experiences he made, and happy to hear more of him.

All the best

Norbert